perhaps it's an outdated version of foobar without foo_input_alac? old versions need that to tag files. the current version can play and tag apple lossless without the need for extra components as it uses the recently released source code.

For qaac 1.14: the error window pops up in the middle of encoding but qaac continues to encode an input file; its log file is fine.

Sounds like the background thread created by CoreAudio is crashing.

As for regular installation of CoreAudioToolbox 7.9.7.3 -- though you might see it as 7.9.7.8 or something ;-), it creates new background thread when the DLL is attached to the process (from qaac point of view, this thread is spawned via a call to LoadLibararyW(L"CoreAudioToolbox.dll").

I don't know what the background thread is for, but it looks like just sitting and waiting for something.In fact, I just tried killing it. qaac main thread just continued as if nothing happened, and terminated properly, as you say.

Very interesting, but there's nothing I can do here.

@holyrevengerI have to say that you'd better use regular Apple Application Support.Not to mention of license issue, 7.9.5.0 is just too old and HE encoder is not available (It was available via QuickTime, but cannot be used directly from CoreAudioToolbox).If you don't want to install them, just search and read this thread.

Hello hydrogenaudio Im a newbee on here and this is my first post so please be gentle. I have a couple of simple questions regarding Qaac which Im sure you experts can help me out with please.Firstly Im running windows 7 32 bit.I have downloaded the latest Qaac from the link on the first post but in the x64 folder which I think is for me all I see is refalac64 and a few Dlls. Where is the qaacq.exe file ?Thank you.Also for it to work in Foobar would these settings be ok --tvbr 60 --highest - %d I just want to use it for my Iriver H340 and what does highest on the command line mean.Many thanks in advance.Ans keep up the good work. P.S All I have downloaded is Quick time and foobar is this correct or is there anything better or anything else I need..x

Firstly Im running windows 7 32 bit.I have downloaded the latest Qaac from the link on the first post but in the x64 folder which I think is for me all I see is refalac64 and a few Dlls. Where is the qaacq.exe file ?Thank you.

"x86" once had the meaning of "intel 80x86 family compatible", to be separated from Motorola and RISC processors with a different machine code. That abbreviation existed already in 8-bit and 16-bit times, even long before AMD made the first Athlon 64 with 64-bit architecture mode. Therefore, "x86" still means "compatible with 32-bit addressing" too.

Option "--highest" of qtaacenc (using the highest amount of efforts to encode efficiently, taking the longest time) is equal to "-2" of qaac.

"x86" once had the meaning of "intel 80x86 family compatible", to be separated from Motorola and RISC processors with a different machine code. That abbreviation existed already in 8-bit and 16-bit times, even long before AMD made the first Athlon 64 with 64-bit architecture mode. Therefore, "x86" still means "compatible with 32-bit addressing" too.

Option "--highest" of qtaacenc (using the highest amount of efforts to encode efficiently, taking the longest time) is equal to "-2" of qaac.

Was the message that showed channel remapping lost at some version? I updated to the latest QAAC but I don't see the message anymore.

Yes, it's not displayed since 1.00 due to the drastic underlying API change. On 1.00 branch, I dropped QuickTime7 and moved to CoreAudio.--remix option was also dropped, and now is superceded by --matrix-preset and --matrix-file.